NEWS: Primetime Emmys, Brooks, Loaded, Simons

ATAS chief looks to Emmy challenges
John Shaffner went through a run-off election to keep his post as chairman and CEO of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Now, he faces one of the toughest mandates for a head of the TV academy in recent history. The Primetime Emmy Awards are in their final year under the current deal with the Big Four broadcast networks. The license fee for the Emmys is a key source of financing for the TV academy and its programs, but with broadcast ratings downtrending, convincing the networks to shell out a large sum for the Emmys may prove a tough sell.

INTERVIEW: EASTENDERS' Rita Simons (Roxy)
On who killed Archie: "I absolutely don't have a clue! There are so many of them and I know what they're like here, they like to pin it on the most unsuspecting person! In fact, I keep thinking it must be me because I'm pretty much the only non-suspect!"